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Introduction To Educational Psychology

1. State the nature of Educational Psychology.
2. Explain the meaning, nature and scope of
Educational Psychology.

3. Define Educational Psychology.

4. How and to what extent Educational Psychology helps the teacher?
5. What are the focal areas of Educational Psychology?

6. Define Educational Psychology. Explain the various uses of Educational Psychology to

a teacher.
7. Mention any two scopes of Educational Psychology.
8. What is Educational Psychology?
9. What is the scope of educational psychology?
10. List the branches of psychology.

11. What is the scope of educational psychology?

12. What is meant by educational psychology?

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2. Methods Of Psychology
1. State the advantages of case study method.
2. State the merits and demerits of case study method.

3. Give an account on Introspective method.

4. Explain two important methods of Educational
Psychology.
5. What is observation method?

6. What is ‘experimental method’?

7. Explain the observation method. Mention its uses.

8. Give an account on experimental method in educational psychology

3. Schools Of Psychology
 1. Explain the cognitive school of psychology with its educational significance.
2. Describe psycho analytic school of psychology and its educational significance.

3. State the principles of Behaviouristic school of psychology.

4. Explain the concept of structuralism.

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4. Growth And Development Of The Learners

1. How does maturation and development influence learning?
2. State the characteristics of emotional and social development during adolescence and
point out their educational implications
3. Mention the meaning of the term ‘growth’.
4. Explain the principles of growth and development.

5. What is maturation?
6. Describe the general principles of growth and development.
7. Define Growth and Development.
8. Differentiate between growth and development.

9. Mention any two principles of growth and development.

10. Explain any two principles of growth and development with an example.
11. Define Developmental Task.

12. Differentiate development from maturation.

13. What are the differences between growth and development?

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15.Dimensions Of Development
1. Describe any three dimensions of development during childhood with illustrations.
2. Bring out the factors affecting social development of children.

3. Explain moral development of children in detail.

4. Explain the role of nature and nurture in the cognitive development of children in
detail.
5. Mention the factors of Social Development.
6. What is social maturity?
7. Explain the factors of social development.
8. What do you mean by ‘social maturity’?
9. Explain Kohlberg’s stages of moral development with examples.
10. Write a short note on social maturity.
11. Explain the term moral development. Write the stages of moral development by
Kohlberg.
12. Enumerate the factors that contribute to proper intellectual development and
explain them in detail.
13. What is the relationship between emotion and cognition?

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15.Theories Of Development
1. Explain Piagets stages of cognitive development with its educational
implications.
2. Describe the cognitive development of children as enunciated by
Piaget and its educational implications.
3. Explain the cognitive development stages putforth by Piaget.

16.Psychology Of Adolescence
1. Suggest any four activities for improving moral development of adolescents
2. List out any two problems of adolescence.
3. How teacher could help adolescents in overcoming their personality problem?
4. Mention two ways to promote leadership qualities among adolescence.
5. Enumerate the developmental problems faced by adolescents and suggest
remedial measures.

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17.Learning
1. Define the term ‘learning’.
 2. Mention the factors influencing learning.
3. Write short note on Gestalt theory.
4. Enumerate the factors affecting learning
with illustrations and suggest corrective measures.
5. What are the important characteristics of learning?
6. Briefly explain a learning curve.

7. Enumerate the factors influencing learning.

8. What are the factors influencing learning?
9. What could be the causes of a plateau in a learning curve?
10. Explain important characteristics of learning.
11. Describe the laws of learning.
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18.Concept Formation
1. Describe how colour concepts are formed among children.
2. Define concept map.
3. What are concepts? How are they formed? Explain with examples.

4. Explain concept formation and its types.

5. What are Concept Maps?

6. Explain Bruner’s theory of concept development and its educational
implications.
7. Explain the Bruner’s concept developmental stages.
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19.Transfer Of Training

20.Metacognition

1. What is meta cognition?

2. Write the causes for attention deficit.

3. Explain the internal factors affecting attention.

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 21.Learning Styles
1. Explain with examples the different types of learning.

2. Give an account on the type of learning advocated by Thorndike.

3. What do you mean by ‘chain learning’?

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1. Attention
1. What is attention? Explain the factors affecting attention
2. What is Attention?
3. What do you mean by span of attention?

4. What is span of attention?

5. What are the objective factors in attention?

6. Explain the subjective factors of attention.
7. Mention any two internal factors affecting attention.
8. Distinguish between inattention and distraction.
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2. Sensation And Perception

1. What is Perception?

2. Define Perception.

3. Define Perception.
4. What do you mean by perceptual organisation?

5. Define Perception.
6. Explain any two factors related to perception.
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8. Theories Of Learning
1. Write briefly about Lawin’s field theory of learning and Hulls
systematic behaviour theory of learning.
2. Compare classical conditioning with operant
conditioning.
3. Explain Kohler’s learning by insight.
4. Compare classical conditioning with operant
conditioning.
5. Bring out the learning principles of classical conditioning theory.
6. Explain Gagne’s learning theory and its educational implications.
7. Write short note on conditioning.
8. List out the advantages of immediate feed back.

9. State the advantages of giving immediate feed back.

10.Give an account of Thorndike’s laws of learning and their implications in
the methods of teaching.
11. What is Conditioning?
12. Explain ‘Trial and Error’ learning and mention its educational
implications.

13. Give a brief note on ‘law of readiness’ by Thorndike.

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9. Memory
1. What are the techniques used for promoting better memory?
2. What are the techniques used for promoting good memory?
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10.Forgetting
1. What is proactive inhibition?

2. What is curve of forgetting?

3. Differentiate pro-active inhibition from retro-active inhibition.
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11.Theories Of Forgetting

12.Determinants Of Personality

1. Explain the major determinants of personality.

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13.Theories Of Personality
1. Explain any two projective techniques for the assessment of
personality.
2. Describe the psycho-analytic theory of personality.

3. Evaluate the psycho-analytic theory of personality according to

Freud.

4. Give an account on traits personality.

5. What are projective techniques? Explain in detail.

6. Theories Of Motivation

1. Enumerate the impact of extrinsic motivation in teaching?

2. Critically analyse the functions of motives in classroom context.
3. Describe Maslow’s theory of motivation.

4. What do you understand by motivation?

5. Describe the Maslow’s need hierarchy theory and its educational

implications.

6. Explain Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs.

7. Describe the Maslows hierarchy of needs in motivation.
8. State the functions of motives.
9. Explain Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. What are the educational
implications?
10. Mention the role of motives in learning.
 11. Discuss the Maslow’s theory of hierarchy of needs and its educational
implications.

7. Achievement Motivation
1. Explain achievement motivation.
2. What is achievement motivation?

3. Suggest ways to develop achievement motivation in students.

4. How will you develop achievement motivation among the high school
students?
5. How will you develop achievement motivation among your students?
6. Write the impact of Laissez Faire leadership on learning.

7. How level aspiration is related to

achievement motivation?
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9. Level Of Aspiration
1. What is level of aspiration?
2. What is level of aspiration?
3. Define level of aspiration. What are the psychological implications of levels of aspiration?
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10.Group Dynamics
1. What is group dynamics? Why should a teacher study group dynamics?
2. Briefly describe the nature of group.
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11.Transactional Analysis

12.Intelligence And Creativity

1. Explain the process of creativity in detail.
2. Mention two important differences between intelligence and creativity.
3. Define intelligence.

4. Distinguish creativity from intelligence.

5. Define Multiple Intelligences.

6. Write short note on any one of the intelligence Scale.
7. Define IQ.
8. What do you mean by ‘Abstract Intelligence’?
9. What do you understand by the constancy of I.Q.?

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11.Theories Of Intelligence
1. Explain briefly the structure of intellect according to Guilford.
2. Explain the theory of intellect according to Guilford.
3. Explain any one theory of intelligence.
4. Describe any one theory of intelligence.
5. Explain briefly any two dimensions of intelligence as given by
Guilford.
6. Explain the theory of intelligence propagated by ‘Spearman’ and
highlight its educational implications.
7. Describe the Stenberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence.

8. Emotional Intelligence
1. Define Emotional intelligence
2. Define emotional intelligence.

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9. Intelligence Quotient

10.Intelligence Test
 11.Creativity

1. Define Creativity.
5. Define Creativity. Explain the process of creativity.
6. Explain the various stages of creativity with examples.
7. Explain the different steps involved in creativity.
8. What are the different stages in creativity?
9. Define creativity. Describe the developmental stages of creativity.
10. Mention the stages in creative process.
11. How will you foster creativity among children?
12. Distinguish the terms convergent and Divergent thinking.

13. Define Problem Solving.

14. What do you mean by ‘Convergent thinking’?
15. Distinguish convergent thinking from divergent thinking.

16. Explain the concept of problem solving and reasoning.

17. What is Reasoning?
18. Define reasoning.

19. Give an account on lateral thinking.

20. Write a note on lateral thinking.

21. Explain the concept lateral thinking.

12.Personality
1. Describe briefly any two theories of personality.
2. Explain any two theories of personality.
3. Mention different factors that influence the personality.
4. What are the factors influencing personality?
5. Explain any one theory of Personality.
6. Classify the factors influencing personality development.
7. Define personality. Explain in detail the methods of measuring
personality.

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9. Motivation And Group Dynamics

1. Define motivation.
 2. Mention the role of rewards and punishments in the learning
situation.
3. Distinguish between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and
point out the merits and demerits of each type.
4. Explain Hull’s drive reduction theory with its educational
significance.

5. List the limitations of rewards.

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10.Integrated Personality
1. What is integrated personality?
2. Mention any two Projective Techniques to measure
Personality.

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11.Assessment Of Personality
1. Describe any two projective techniques of personality assessment.
2. Critically examine the merits and demerits of
Rorschach ink blot test.
3. Describe any one method of assessing the personality of High school students.
4. Differentiate attitude from aptitude.
5. What do you mean by aptitude?

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12.Individual Difference
1. Who are delinquent children?

2. Mention any five characteristics of the Gifted Children.

3. An individual is the product of heredity and environment- Discuss.

4. Mention any five characteristics of the Gifted.

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6. Role Of Heredity & Environment In Individual Difference

7. Conflict
1. What are the different types of conflicts? Explain with suitable
illustrations.

2. Concept Of Maladjustment

1. Explain the various causes of maladjustment among school children.

2. Point out any four symptoms of maladjustment.
3. Enumerate the symptoms of maladjustment.

3. Adjustment And Mental Health

1. What is Mental health?
2. Suggest the ways and means of promoting mental health of the pupils.
What are the factors affect mental health of a person?
3. What are defence mechanisms? Why are they named as defence
mechanisms? Describe any four defence mechanisms with
illustrations.

4. Explain the different types of defence mechanisms.

5. Mention two ways to promote mental health.

6. Explain the main determinants of adjustment.

7. What are the factors that affect mental health of a person? Suggest
the ways and means of promoting mental health of the students.

8. Describe the different types of defense mechanism with suitable

illustration.
9. Explain any three defence mechanisms.
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4. Frustration
 1. Mention the causes of frustration.

5. Concept Of Mental Hygiene

1. What do you mean by mental hygiene?

2. What is mental hygiene?

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6. Guidance And Counseling

1. Mention the types of guidance.

2. Explain the counselling techniques.
3. Define counseling.
4. Explain the client centred approach in counselling.
5. What is Counselling?
6. What is guidance? What are the major types of guidance?
7. Describe any two counselling techniques in detail.
8. Define Counselling.

9. Guidance Services
1. Describe the need, nature and scope of guidance services in schools.
2. ‘Educational and Vocational guidance are interconnected’ – Discuss.

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